Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
LEO TOLSTOYWhen you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
More Leo Tolstoy Quotes
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Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
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My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
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There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
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He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.
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What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are but how you deal with incompatibility.
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Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
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All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.
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I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
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Rest, nature, books, music – such is my idea of happiness.
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Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
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Boredom: the desire for desires.
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Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.
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Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.
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Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.
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To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.
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